Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressures may make the ultimate difference in his decision. Whenever possible, most pilots prefer to make landings according to visual (fair weather) flight rules, instead of instrument approaches that take more time and cost more in fuel. Circling in a fog over Tokyo in March, a Canadian Pacific pilot decided to divert his flight to Taipei; he changed his mind when he heard a better weather reading from the Tokyo tower and tried a visual approach. The crash killed...
...April 1, 1967, the NATO military headquarters themselves must be dismantled, and all U.S. and Canadian troops now in France moved elsewhere. Delays may be possible in certain cases, such as an aircraft-repair complex near Châteauroux, which just happens to employ 2,900 French civilians...
Last week Champion Clay was reduced to fighting for pocket money in Toronto, a hockey town, against George Chuvalo, a onetime used-car salesman. When it was all over and he had won, Clay suffered one more indignity: the Canadian government held up his purse, to make sure that he paid his taxes...
...rather because of them (they prohibit extreme speeds), Sebring has never been considered a particularly dangerous course. Nobody had been killed there in seven years-until last week. On the fourth lap, Robert McLean, a Ford dealer from Vancouver, B.C., was gearing down for the hairpin when his Canadian-owned Ford GT 40 careened into a phone pole and burst into flames. McLean died in the fire, but worse was to come. On the 200th lap, Pennsylvania's Mario Andretti tried to downshift his non-factory Ferrari from fourth to third, slammed the lever into first instead. The Ferrari...
...punches for the 9,000 spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens and the 38-closed-circuit audiences who saw the Louisville champion extended 15 rounds for the first time. Chuvalo landed solid blows with the left to Clay's body and jaw in several rounds, but Clay outpunched the Canadian by a wide margin and drew blood from cuts around his puffed eyes...